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G. A. WALLIN MARKING TI CKET BOLT Filed Sept. 12, 1922 2 Sheets-Sheet 41 InvenTor.

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G-U'STAF ALBIN "WALLIN, F FLUSHING, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO A, KIMBALL COM- PANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEV YORK.

MARKING-TICKET BOLT.

Application filed September 12, 1922. Serial No. 587,694.

This invention relates to improvements in marking tickets, of the type for marking apparel, textile materials, and other articles, having attaching instrumentalities, such as,

pins or strings secured to the ticket and pro jecting from one edge thereof and the general object of the invention is to produce an article of manufacture consisting of a pack age or bolt of such marking tickets comprising a strip of tickets, with their fastening instrumentalities attached thereto, wound upon a core or reel which can be conveniently stored and from which the ticket strip can be conveniently unwound and It passed through a marking or printing device for supplyin the desired lot and price marks, etc., whic are usually applied to such tickets.

Such marking tickets are usually made from a strip of stiff ticket material, such as, cardboard, the resilience of which is such as to cause it to tend to unwind when wound upon a core or reel and one of the objects of the invention is to provide means for reducing the resiliency of the strip sufficiently to enable it to remain compactly wound upon the core or reel. This is accomplished by providing the strip with weakened transverse lines which also serve to define the edges of the ticket.

Another object of the invention is to provide a marking ticket bolt in which the tickets are wound upon a reel having heads at least one of which is so constructed and so located as to protect the attaching devices from injury.

Another object of the invention is to pro vide a marking ticket'bolt of the class described with a protecting covering for the outermost coil of the strip which will also serve to prevent the heads from being forced together in such a manner as to injure the attaching members or to distort the heads of the bolt.

Another object of the invention is to provide a marking ticket bolt having polygonal heads which prevent the bolt from rolling from a shelf when placed onedge and also which enable the bolt to fit within a suitable, preferably rectangular, carton.

In the use of markin tickets for labeling various articles of merchandise the lot number, price number, and other information for the use of the salesmen, is written or printed upon the tickets. As the number of articles in different lots vary widely it, is not usually feasible to have the printing of such memoranda done by the manufacturer. Another object of the invention is to provide a pin ticket strip of the character described so constructed that it can be automatically unwound and fed through a printing or stamping machine at the place of business of the user and the desired number of tickets for each lot printed with the required indicia without substantial waste of tickets which necessarily occurs where printed tickets are ordered in stated quantities from the manufacturer. This is accomplished in the present invention by providing one or both edges 79 of the pin ticket strip with notches preferably located at the transverse weakened lines of severance of the pin tickets adapted to be engaged by the feeding mechanism of an automatic printing or marking machine.

The most common forms of marking tickets for articles of apparel, bolts of textile material, etc., are of the pin ticket type which are provided with one or more penetrating attaching members which project from the reverse face or edge of the ticket; Usually the penetrating member is in the form of a staple having its points formed by cutting a wire obliquely in respect to its axis. The shanks of the staples are passed through the ticket and the loop of the staple secured to the ticket so that the shanks of the staple project from the ticket either at right angles to the reverse face of the ticket or beyondthe edge thereof in substantial parallelism with the face of the ticket. 1n other styles of tickets a single penetrating member is employed. In all of these constructions the points of the penetrating members are exposed and are likely to become slightly bent so that when withdrawn from fine textile fabrics they will snag, cut or otherwise injure the material to which they are attached. Such pin tickets are usually packaged for shipment and sale 100 by dumping a number 0]. them miscellaneously into a box. The packages of pin tickets thus formed are necessarily bulky and require considerable room in storage and in shipment.

By the present invention a pin ticket package or bolt is provided which comprises a continuous strip of pin tickets having their penetrating members extendin from the edges of the tickets in substantial parallel- 11,

ism with the bodies of the tickets, said strip being coiled upon a reel provided with a head, preferably of relatively soft material, adapted to cover and to protect the points of the penetrating members from injury. By reason of this construction a neat and relatively small pin ticket construction is provided which can be conveniently stored and shipped.

This continuous coiled strip of pin tickets can be unwound from the reel and passed through a marking or printing machine so that the proper indicia can be readily printed upon the tickets and the tickets then cut off in finished condition ready to be applied to the merchandise. v

These and other objects and features of the invention will more fully appear from the following description and the accompanying drawings and will be pointed out in the claims.

Preferred embodiments of the invention are illustrated in the accompanying drawings which show marking ticket bolts of pin tickets and string tags, but it will be under stood that the inventionv may be employed with marking tickets having other forms of attaching devices within the scope of the claims herein.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is an elevation of a pin ticket bolt embodying my invention, a portion of one of the heads being broken away to illustrate the coiled pin ticket strip and the protecting covering therefor;

Fig. 2 is a vertical diametrical sectional view of a preferred form of reel for the pin ticket bolt;

Fi g. 3 is a perspective view of a section of a preferred form of pin ticket strip;

Fig. 4 is an enlarged transverse, sectional, detail: view of the drum of a marking ticket reel showing the pin ticket strip applied thereto, having weakened transverse lines which reduce the resiliency of the strip;

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a strip of marking tickets having attaching strings secured thereto; and,

Fig. 6 is an enlarged detail, axial, sectiona1 view of a marking ticket reel having marking tickets of the type illustrated in Fig. 5 wound thereon.

The pin ticket strip or bolt illustrated in Figs. 1 to 3 comprises a series of similar pin ticket bodies 1 having penetrating mem bers secured to the upper edge thereof- The penetrating members as illustrated comprise staples having shanks 2 and 3 which pass through the tickets adjacent the upper edge, the looped central portion 4 of the staples being bent around the edge of the ticket and folded against the reverse side thereof, the shanks 2 and 3 projecting beyond the edge of the ticket in substantial parallelism with the body thereof so that when the strip is coiled or uncoiled the shanks of the various tickets will notengage or interfere with one another.

The tickets are defined upon the strip by transverse weakened lines 5 formed by perforating, scoring or slitting the strip so as to reduce its resiliency sufliciently to enab e the strip to remain compactly wound upon the drum of the reel.

Notches 6, having their apexes in the lines 5, are formed in one or both edges of the strip to provide means by which the feeding mechanism of a marking or printing machine may engage the strip to advance the tickets with certainty the distance necessary to position the face of the ticket properly beneath the printing or marking mechanism.

The pin ticket strip thus formed is wound upon a suitable reel to form a pin ticket bolt or package. Any suitable reel may be employed within the broad scope of the invention. A. preferred reel which is illustrated in section in Fig. 2 comprises a central cylindrical, preferably metallic, drum 7 having tabs 8 extending therefrom at suitable distances apart. These tabs project through suitable apertures or slots in the heads 5) of the reel and are bent down upon the outside of said heads to secure the heads to the cylindrical drum. One or both of the heads desirably is made of cardboard, fibre board, or other relatively soft material which will, not injure the points of the pins by contact therewith during the winding operation or by striking the points if the bolt is dropped upon its side.

Preferably the drum is provided with two similar protecting heads which are located respectively adjacent to the points of the pins of the coil and adjacent the plain edge of the strip. However, the head of the reel which is adjacent to the plain edge of the strip may be made of skeleton or other form adapted to prevent displacement of the pin ticket strip.

hen the pin ticket strip has been wound upon the reel the outermost coil desirably is enclosed by a protecting covering of a width equal to or slightly greater than the width of the pin tickets and their projecting penetrating members so that the protecting strip will serve both to retain the coil tightly wound and also to prevent flexure of the heads toward each other and, therefore, will prevent the heads from pressing upon the points of the pins.

A suitable form of protecting covering is illustrated herein as comprising a strip of corrugated cardboard packing material. which consists of an outer layer 10 and an inner layer 11 with a corrugated strip 12 of cardboard therebetween, this protecting strip being wound tightly about the outermost coil of the pin ticket strip and its end secured in any suitable manner.

Any suitable means may be provided for securing the end of the strip to the drum in order to enable it to be properly reeled upon the drum. As illustrated herein the drum is provided with a slot 13 through which the whole or' a portion of the end ticket of the strip is inserted as illustrated in Fig. 41.

The heads of the reel preferably are of polygonal form to prevent rolling of the reel when placed on edge. The heads illustrated in the accompanying drawings are square and of a size slightly greater in diameter than the diameter of the coiled strip and its protecting covering.

Reels of this form can be readily inserted in rectangular cartons which can be conveniently packed in boxes for shipment, or the reels are capable of being compactly packed without the enclosing cartons. They can also be placed upon edge upon shelves without danger of rolling from the shelves.

In Figs. 5 and 6 a marking ticket strip is illustrated which consists of a series of similar ticket bodies 1 1 defined by weakened lines and having notches 16 formed in the edges of the strip with their apexes in the weakened lines 15 as heretofore described in respect to the pin ticket strip illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 3.

The attaching devices for the marking tickets illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6 comprise strings 17 each of which passes through a suitable hole 18 centrally of and adjacent one end of the ticket, the ends of each string being secured together by a knob 19. These marking tickets may be wound upon a reel of the character above described, the width or the reel being such as to leave a narrow space 20 in which the strings may be wound in overlapping relation as illustrated in Fig. 6.

Marking ticket bolts 01 string tickets or tags are thus provided which can be unsound and printed or marked in automatic iilii'iflllllGS in the manner heretofore described.

it will be understood that the embodients oi the invention disclosed herein are 1 tiative and are not restrictive; that variour: modifications in form, construction and errangcxneiit of parts may be made, and that bolts having other forms of tickets may be employed within the meaning and scope of the "following claims.

Having thus described my invention, What l: claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A marking ticket bolt comprising a reel having a drum and heads, a continuous strip ct ticket material wound thereupon, said strip being providedwith transverse weakened lines which reduce the resiliency oi the strip sufficiently to enable it to remain wound compactly upon said drum and which also divide the strip into a series of similarly shaped marking tickets, each ticket having a device secured thereto and projecting from the edge thereof, the heads of said drum being sufliciently spaced apart to enclose the attaching devices between the ticket strip and one oi the heads and a spacing device interposed between said heads acting to hold said heads a suliicient distance apart to guard the attaching devices.

2. A pin ticket bolt comprising a continuous pin ticket strip divided by weakened lines into a series of similarly shaped pin tickets provided with penetrating members projecting from one edge of the strip in substantial parallelism with the tickets, said strip being coiled upon a reel having heads located respectively adjacent to and guarding the points of said penetrating members and adjacent to the other edge of the coiled strip and means acting to prevent uncoiling of the strip and movement of said heads toward each other.

A pin ticket bolt comprising a continuous pin ticket strip divided by weakened lines into a series of similarly shaped pin tickets provided with penetrating members projecting from one edge of the strip in substantial parallelism with the tickets, said strip being coiled upon a reel having heads located respectively adjacent to and guard ing the points of said penetrating members and acent to the other edge of the coiled strip and an enclosing layer of still material surrounding and fitting the outermost coil of said pin ticket strip of such a width as to space the heads apart a sutficient distance to enclose and guard the attaching devices.

4. A pin ticket bolt comprising a con tinuous pin ticket strip divided by weakened lines into a series of similarly shaped pin tickets provided with penetrating members projecting from one edge of the strip in substantial parallelism with the tickets, said strip being coiled upon a reel having heads located respectively adjacent to and covering the points of said penetrating members and adjacent to the other edge of the coiled strip and a coil of corrugated paper board enclosing and fitting the outermost coil of the paper strip of awidth not less than the width of the strip and the penetrating members extending therefrom.

5. A pin ticket bolt comprising a continuous strip of similarly shaped pin tickets defined by lines extending transversely of said strip and provided with pins projecting from the same edge of the strip in substantial parallelism with said tickets, said strip being coiled upon a reel having a central metallic drum and parallel heads one of which is of a material which will not dull the points of the pins by contact thereof, located respectively adjacent the edge of the coiled strip and the points of the pins.

(3. A pin ticket bolt comprising a continuous strip of similarly shaped pin tickets located respectively adjacent the edge of the 10 defined by lines extending transversely of coiled strip and the points of the pins, said said strip and provided with pins projecting heads being secured to said drum by tabs ext'i'oin the same edge of the strip in substantending fron'i the edges of said driim through tial parallelism with said tickets, said strip ceii'iplenlentary apertures in said heads and being; coiled upon a reel having a central folded down against said heads. 15 metallic drum and parallel heads One of In testimony whereof, I have signed my WlHCll 18 of a. material which will not dull name to this speclfication.

the points of the pins by contact thereof, GUSTAF ALBIN l/VALLIN. 

